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| I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no “brief candle” to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom. | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| It is my ambition and desire to so administer the affairs of the government while I remain President that if at the end I have lost every other Friend on earth I shall at least have one friend remaining and that one shall be down inside me | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books | | Friedrich Nietzsche | |
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| It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward, unless he has brutified his nature and quenched the spirit of immortality which is his portion. | | Robert Southey | |
| It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. | | Theodore Roosevelt | |
| It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it | | Seneca | |
| Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great. | | Mark Twain | |
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| Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things. | | Albert Einstein | |
| Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?' My answer was then and still is, 'If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.' | | Marilyn Monroe | |
| That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty | | Seneca | |
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| To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. | | Samuel Johnson | |
| To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness? | | William Makepeace Thackeray | |
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